Brief Life History of Cornelia Lee
When Cornelia Lee Lee was born on 15 January 1846, in Nauvoo Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Doyle Lee, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Bean, was 19. She married Lars Pedersen Mortensen on 29 December 1863, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Iron City, Iron, Utah, United States in 1850 and Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 24 December 1937, in Sanford, Conejos, Colorado, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, Conejos, Colorado, United States.
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- Eliza Decker in household of Zechariah B Decker, "United States Census, 1850"
- CORNELIA MORTENSEN, "BillionGraves Index"
- Cornelia Decker in entry for Hellena Laurette Mortensen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1852: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Iron, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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